Where Beauty Is

“Great read. Captures the zeitgeist of the mid-twentieth century art world.” CR Smith

After art critic Edward Fisher died, author Giles Ward discovered a lifetime’s collection of notes and transcripts the writer had made in preparation for his biography of controversial twentieth-century British artist Wallace Slade.

Based on interviews covering a twenty-six year period – from 1963 to the very day of the artist’s death in 1989 – much of this material has never been published and reveals a deeply personal lifelong relationship between Fisher and Slade.

Where Beauty Is explores the dangers involved when such a relationship between a critic and his subject becomes too close.